New CDs in stores this week

■Elisa Ambrogio, "The Immoralist" (Drag City). Lead singer for Magik Markers tries out the solo tip on an introductory LP that's as beautifully quiet as the Markers are enjoyably not.

■Amaranthe, "Massive Addictive" (Spinefarm). On its third album, metal pride of Gothenburg, Sweden, adds a new scream-side vocalist to its mélange of machined riffs, industrial rhythms and pop songcraft.

■Apollonia, "Tour á Tour" (Apollonia). With a title that can translate from the French as "alternately," the first album from three Gallic DJs shows off skills in underground techno and house.

■Bear's Den, "Islands" (Communion). London trio might have a strong whiff of Mumford or Avett in its country/roots/folk/pop sound, but it also finds its particular angle and loving expansiveness on this first album.

■Boyz II Men, "Collide" (BMG Rights Management). In the middle of a concert residency in Vegas running from 2013 to 2015, this Philly-born trio with huge '90s hits shows some humor and classic R&B moves on latest disc.

■Eliot Bronson, "Eliot Bronson" (Saturn 5). Atlanta singer-songwriter makes the analog thing more than a fetish on his latest collection of Americana.

■Bush, "Man on the Run" (Zuma Rock/BMG Rights Management). The U.K. band with Gavin Rossdale that mainstreamed alternative rock in the '90s drops sixth LP and deals manfully with post-rock era.

■Aretha Franklin, "Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics" (RCA). A diva among divas and Clive Davis, one of her better guides, stride through diva history from Etta James and the Supremes to Destiny's Child and Adele.

■Horse Feathers, "So It Is With Us" (Kill Rock Stars). Portland indie-folk act doesn't quite "lighten up" on its fifth LP, but there's a feeling of greater sunshine being bounced off its dark-cloud beauty and twangy melancholy.

■Billy Idol, "Kings & Queens of the Underground" (BFK/Kobalt Label Services). Former Generation X (that was the name of the band) punk and leather-clad metal man faces down his 59th birthday next month with a recent autobiography and new album of familiar rock.

■Jukebox the Ghost, "Jukebox the Ghost" (Yep Roc). Peripatetic (mostly East Coast) trio based around piano names fourth album after itself and refreshes the clarity of its indie-founded, mainstream-ready pop.

■Kiesza, "Sound of a Woman" (Lokal Legend/Island). Calgary singer with the Euro hit "Hideaway" comes home with a surprisingly spare vision of modern pop on her debut LP.

■Annie Lennox, "Nostalgia" (Blue Note). Still remembered fondly as half of Eurythmics, Lennox in turn thinks fondly of other people's songs, and this is her second (not counting a Christmas album) well-sung collection of them.

■Thurston Moore, "The Best Day" (Matador). After the divorce-encouraged dissolution of Sonic Youth, its most recognizable male player doesn't try to make his latest solo (with band) disc sound too distant from the "No Wave" NYC rock he helped develop.

■Nude Beach, "77" (Don Giovanni). Brooklyn threesome's second LP is a double LP packed with garage-rocking material the band stockpiled, then recorded in bedrooms and a basement studio.

■Pentatonix, "That's Christmas to Me" (RCA). Having won the 2011 season of "The Sing-Off" and charmed audiences on tour, Texas a cappella group turns to holiday faves a second time and throws in a cover of "Let It Go."

■Pitch Black Forecast, "As the World Burns" (Ferocious). Mushroomhead's J-Mann heads up all-star metal project with loud, vicious turns from members of Ringworm, Avenged Sevenfold and Lamb of God.

■Slipknot, ".5: The Gray Chapter" (Roadrunner). First album from Iowa nu-metal group in six years mourns the 2010 overdose death, and feels the absence, of founding member Paul Gray.

■T.I., "Paperwork" (Grand Hustle/Columbia). Newest from the Atlanta-born songwriter and rapper is meant, he's said, to feel "official," and does so with help from the likes of Pharrell Williams, Iggy Azalea and Usher.

■The 2 Bears, "The Night Is Young" (Southern Fried). Raf Rundell and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard team up again for a second serving of songwriting and production that brings pop-house sounds to considerations of middle age and other non-club topics.

■Various artists, "Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell" (Yep Roc). If Russell, who died in 1992, can hardly be summarized — "formally trained cellist into disco, early house and unusual collaborations" — then this double-disc tribute with Robyn, Sufjan Stevens and many others at least makes an excellent and earnest start.

■Jessie Ware, "Tough Love" (PMR/Friends Keep Scores/Interscope). Londoner's second solo turn of gently adventurous music and distant, heartbreaking vocals sets her in a line of English women giving pop a simultaneously longing glance and aloof glare.